Chapter 6: Catch Up

Hey folks,

I have not written a blog in a while because there was nothing much to write about. I was waiting on some documents that arrived a tad too late but at least they've arrived.

Brief Run Down:

• I had another unpleasant experience in London relating to finding work. 
• The cold calling job I applied for never got back to me and then I was told that their company shut down.
• Helped out with the Community Speed Watch programme. Learned some things. 
• Had a hard time explaining to some people that sexism, like racism (there are other races out there people besides white and black. I'm talking Asian, Indian, all the countries that make up South America & Eastern Europe. Heck we're talking about 7 billion people but I'm too pretentious to just link to wikipedia.). Basically those -isms can go both ways. Gave up in the end and continued job hunting. 
• Sleeping pattern became wrecked because I keep experiencing extreme tiredness at random moments even after sleeping properly. I often go to bed at 9pm, wake up at 7am and feel extremely tired by 5pm.

Today I'm heading off to Bicester as it has been described as a "hub of activity" by the Job Centre in Banbury. I was told that many position are opening up in the town and one good place to look is a Sainsburys that has opened up. Also I was given a few phone numbers for specific agencies. (There are over two dozen agencies, numerous websites. It's like looking for a needle in a wheat field.)

• Another thing that I've been doing is reading from a lot of news reports and rarely do I find something nice to share.

The BBC recently reported that our nation has 5 million managers. 5 million. This same report also said that these managers acquired their jobs through being "maybe men". Interesting that they used the word men as that would suggest that the managerial position is dominated by males and so we've not seen that much of a move from the generation where the military dominated the managing profession for a few decades back that line of work was solely a role for men.

Another frustrating point was that these men are "maybe men". Another way of saying "maybe men" is  "no god damn integrity". No wonder there are numerous reports of office bullying and weirdness, like what we witnessed in that BBC3 bile that was The Call Centre. For a profession that is dominated by males I am astonished to find a complete lack of balls (We never see reports about good managers). Both amongst managers and by co-workers that fail to put them down. The society we live in only became possible after centuries of  fighting against bullies. Give the history of women's rights & LGBT movements a quick glance and you'll learn a lot about fighting the good fight. Heck that is what most of human history is, an oppressed group fighting against a powerful one.

Usually the powerful group holds access to financial credit, production or food. Today that powerful group have access to mass media, legal mechanisms and all the previously mentioned pros. What I am saying is that is we only have one life and if we don't fight to make our own future brighter then what hope do future generations have? 

Cheers for reading, 

Have a great week,

Share if you think I said anything worth while, message me if you know of any job opportunities.

The report that mentioned the managers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23462290

Edit: I gather that there are good managers out there otherwise such a profession would not exist.